UAW loses

Shawn Fain, after a year of splendid leadership against the corporate monsters, sacrifices it all by endorsing one of the corporate monsters.

Betrayal breaks trust. Everyone in a position of power is a betrayer now.

In a less dramatic sense, smart independent power-seekers understand that you lose your magic when you endorse a party or side. When blacks and Hispanics were unbreakably loyal to D, the D party took them for granted and offended them with impunity because nothing could affect their loyalty. Now that blacks and Hispanics are starting to break away, D politicians will have to DO SOMETHING to regain their loyalty. Christians are unquenchably loyal to Lover And Lord and Personal Saviour Trump, so Trump can break every rule of Christianity with impunity as long as he keeps chanting the magic word ISRAEL.

It’s just math. Constants can be factored out of an equation. Variables must be dealt with.